Cody Kelly is back and once again, his quest for peace is threatened but, in more ways, than one in this sequel to The Fearless One.

After defeating his archrival Jay and destroying his underground empire, Cody Kelly has married his girlfriend Kimberly and attempt to live in peace. However, Cody learns that being married is not always what It’s cracked up to be. Cody runs a martial arts school while Kimberly has inherited her father’s warehouse after he dies of an illness. Cody has been training with assistant sensei Jamal and new student Zoey and his work as a sensei tends to clash with Kimberly. However, this becomes the least of Cody’s issues.

Samaad, reeling from the loss of Jay, decides to start up the underground fights again with his new crew. He constantly is coercing Cody to return to fighting as he knows that Cody could make the crew a heavy profit. However, Cody constantly refuses and finds himself under constant turmoil. While he and Kimberly eventually work out their issues, something strange begins to happen. A mysterious figure has targeted not only Cody, but Samaad as his team as well. When Cody is suspected of the murder of his next-door neighbor, he will go to great lengths to clear his name.

Picked up shortly after the events of The Fearless One, this sequel finds our hero once again looking for peace, this time alongside his new wife only to find many complications. However, in an effort not to rehash the original film, this one goes a bit of a different route, adding a supernatural element to things. It’s quite interesting and yet, it may turn some viewers off when Cody’s eyes and hands glow blue (perhaps homage to “The Glow” in The Last Dragon) when he unleashes his inner chi.

Alonzo Herran Jr. returns to the role of Cody while Patricia Alves replaces Roxanne Kelly as Kimberly. Alves makes for a good replacement, showing an emotional range when she and Cody have their arguments and yet when it calls for them to make up, she has great chemistry with Herran. The film also brings back Marc John Jeffries as Samaad, who is determined to start up the underground fights again for a good payday. The film also brings back the synthetic steroid “Last Dragon”, which we now see gives its user black eyes similar to that of “the Gift” in the series Into the Badlands.

Struggle E. Styles goes solo with the fight scenes and once again, there are some pretty cool throwback fights. However, there are also some dream sequences from Cody in which his chi is released and in one instance, finds himself in outer space. Whether this was meant to be real or even in a dream scene is still mind-blowing to see. However, there is a major twist in the story (like there was in the original) that will totally turn the tables on everything. That twist comes in a mysterious hooded figure using a sword to kill and Cody is of course, the prime suspect. The ending itself is shocking and we get a reference to a 90’s biopic about a legendary martial arts icon.

The Fearless Two is an interesting sequel that starts off seriously but adds a bit of a supernatural edge with the idea of inner ‘chi’. The finale was unexpected and will lead into The Fearless Three, released last year.

WFG RATING: B-

A Royal Family Entertainment/Dynomyte Films production. Director: Jamal Hall. Producer: Cornelius Whitfield. Writer: Vince Edgehill; based on characters created by Alonzo Herran Jr. Cinematography: Donald Ducatti Murray and George David Riley. Editing; Michael Lee.

Cast: Alonzo Herran Jr., Patricia Alves, Marc John Jeffries, Roy Jones Jr., Zab Judah, Omar Gooding, Lillo Brancato, Kristin Lauria, Kenna Jackson, Sarah Fina, Amel Khalil, Angelo Maldonado Jr., Lulu Lopez.